In a letter to the editor submitted last week, a J&C reader urged Republican Sen. Todd Young to oppose President Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

But to truly reflect the will of Hoosier voters, Sen. Young should be joined in his support of Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination by Sen. Joe Donnelly.

Sen. Donnelly has claimed for years that he works for us and puts partisan bickering to the side. In a recent poll, Hoosiers favored the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh by a margin of 52 percent to 34 percent, almost the margin by which President Trump won the state of Indiana. If Sen. Donnelly wants to continue to represent Hoosiers in Washington, D.C., he needs to show that he will continue to stand with us on important issues like Supreme Court nominations as he did with Neil Gorsuch, another outstanding Justice chosen by President Trump.

I was happy to see that Sen. Donnelly has agreed to meet with Judge Kavanaugh, one of only a few Democratic senators that have even agreed to take a meeting with him. Following this meeting and a review of his many impressive decisions on the D.C. Circuit, will Sen. Donnelly follow the will of Hoosiers and vote “yes” for the immensely qualified Judge Brett Kavanaugh to be the next justice of the Supreme Court? Or will he take his orders from Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren in Washington? If he doesn’t choose correctly, our choice will be easy on Election Day.

Jacob Pomasl

Logansport

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